Hi - I recently aquired a SP12 turbo, and I'm having trouble getting my head round the channel assignments, in terms of what sounds share a channel and will therefore cut each other off. There seems to be no MPC style mute grouping that i can find, but I want to sample hihats, and have the open and closed samples cut each other off. There seems to be some arbitury note stealing going on across the 32 slots, but I cant find a pattern to it, and cant find any documented explanation. Any SP experts out there that can enlighten me? Hope this makes sense.

im a proud owner of the sp-12, its a great bt of kit, yes you can only have one sound at any time going out of one channel, its what gives it some of its funk, as if you do apply certain sounds to the same channel, then the note stealing can give it a 'choppy' effect.

just experiment with putting certain sounds to certain channels, as all the channels have differnt filters on them..(aprt from 7&8, these are unfiltered)

Matt's right the SP12 is a dope machine, you just got to experiment with it a bit more. Certain sounds I sample, certain drums whatever, always get assigned to the same specific channels. s**t like hats, all my hats go to the same channel, all my bass goes on the same channel. You can use "blank" pads for cutting s**t off too. The SP is a simple machine but it's all about how you use it. Alot of cats think that 5 seconds is not enough to make a beat but I beg to differ. Even in 2008 it's still a dope piece.

rhythmonster wrote:Matt's right the SP12 is a dope machine, you just got to experiment with it a bit more. Certain sounds I sample, certain drums whatever, always get assigned to the same specific channels. s**t like hats, all my hats go to the same channel, all my bass goes on the same channel. You can use "blank" pads for cutting s**t off too. The SP is a simple machine but it's all about how you use it. Alot of cats think that 5 seconds is not enough to make a beat but I beg to differ. Even in 2008 it's still a dope piece.

rhythmonster wrote:Matt's right the SP12 is a dope machine, you just got to experiment with it a bit more. Certain sounds I sample, certain drums whatever, always get assigned to the same specific channels. s**t like hats, all my hats go to the same channel, all my bass goes on the same channel. You can use "blank" pads for cutting s**t off too. The SP is a simple machine but it's all about how you use it. Alot of cats think that 5 seconds is not enough to make a beat but I beg to differ. Even in 2008 it's still a dope piece.

I am incredibly excited to say I am about to be a very proud owner of one of these too... I know there are different filter types on each channel, and so some sounds work better one different ones-just curious what specific ones you use for what-like you say you put a kik on one, hats on the other? (if it's not a trade secret of course)